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Jonathan Rhys Meyers By Andy Morris GQ, October 2006 Scarlett Johansson, Tom Cruise’s helicopter, a Golden Globe and now a GQ award: this streetwise star turn has had his hands full in 2006 “People see me on the red carpet and on the posters,” says the Lab Series Man Of The Year, “and they think it must be a charmed life. And I suppose it is.” Sitting in a Camden bar on a Sunday morning, drinking Coke and chaining Marlboros, Jonathan Rhys Meyers appears – unsurprisingly –...

THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING EARNEST By Luke Crisell Nylon Guys, Summer 2006 Jonathan Rhys Meyers is not afraid to tell it like it is…Neither is Luke Crisell Jonathan Rhys Meyers is a lot of things, but shy is not one of them. He doesn’t so much walk as swagger—around the photo studio, across the street, and along the gangplank of a dilapidated barge moored behind the Chelsea Piers mega-complex on the far west side of Manhattan — and doesn’t so much talk as vociferate, so loudly and...

Jonathan Rhys Meyers By George Epaminondas InStyle, June 2006 He gives new meaning to the phrase “sharply dressed gentleman.” On a break from filming in N.Y.C., Jonathan Rhys Meyers wears slim Diesel jeans, work boots and an oversize gray hoodie printed with pink razor blades. Not everyone could get away with such a nouveau punk look, but then very few can go from starring in Elvis on TV (and winning a Golden Globe) to playing a rakish social climber in Match Pint or a secret in Mission:...

The Lord Meyers By Sylvia Patterson Glamour, June 2006 He’s always had the leading man looks. Now, with a Golden Globe in the bag and his first starring role in a blockbuster, Jonathan Rhys Meyers’ career has caught up. But, insists Sylvia Patterson, it’s his huge personality she’s fallen for. Yeah, right! “Take it from me, if you cheat on your girlfriend,” Jonathan is blaring, through those intoxieatingly full lips, “as I have in the past, she will turn up in a year’s time more beautiful, taller,...

JONATHAN RHYS MEYERS By Shari Roman Flaunt, May 2006 The Irish heartbreaker broke ground in Velvet Goldmine, Bend It Like Beckham, Alexander, and the miniseries Elvis. The blockbuster Mission: Impossible III seals the deal on his bankable fame. “If I was a director,” bluffs Jonathan Rhys Meyers, “I would torture my actors. Torture them, torture them!” It’s a rainy afternoon in Manhattan in April, and up until 7:45 this morning, Rhys Meyers has been shooting the film August Rush with Keri Russell, his costar from Mission: Impossible...

Golden Boy By Colette Sheridan Social & Personal, March/April 2006 Citing the legendary Richard Harris and Peter O’Toole as childhood idols, the unquestionably beautiful young Irish movie star Jonathan Rhys Meyers has succeeded in reaching the top of his game without ever having attended acting school. But fame and fortune haven’t come without a price. The recent Golden Globe winner opened his heart to Colette Sheridan on a rare visit home to his native Cork. Jonathan Rhys Meyers is, you could say, a young man at the top of...

The Hotsy-Totsy Jonathan Rhys Meyers By Graham Fuller Interview, February 2006 He’s always had the smoldering good looks and swells of tempestuous talent to make hearts melt. So how come it took the movie’s kibbitzing king of neuroses to unlock it all? Here’s an insolent Renaissance prince for cocktail-hour chitchat in English country-house drawing rooms. In Woody Allen’s Match Point, Jonathan Rhys Meyers gives his most gripping performance yet as Chris Wilton, a failed tennis pro who seizes the opportunity to enter a world of privilege by...

Tennis the Menace By Dave Itzkoff Spin, January 11, 2006 Whether he’s feuding with his directors or talking dirty to Scarlett Johansson, Match Point’s Jonathan Rhys Meyers is an actor with balls to spare A word of advice to aspiring silver-screen heartthrobs: If your current headshots and audition reels aren’t getting you noticed in Hollywood, try hanging out in dingy, smoke-filled Irish pool halls. Jonathan Rhys Meyers was just 16 years old, still “a little spotty, a little small, a little skinny,” and goofing off in one...

All Dressed Up by Stephen Garrett Esquire, January 2006 WHETHER AS A MOODY glam rocker in 1998’s Velvet Goldmine , a rugged soccer coach in 2002’s Bend It Like Beckham , or as the King himself in 2005’s CBS miniseries Elvis , twenty-eight-year-old Irish actor Jonathan Rhys Meyers has angled his brooding visage and stormy screen presence into one of the most promising careers of the past decade. Now Woody Allen’s London-set Match Point signals potential fulfilled. In it, Rhys Meyers plays an Irish striver who trades...

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